Welcoming new Faculty and Staff
Lore/tta LeMaster, Associate Professor
The Department of Social Justice Education was thrilled to welcome Dr. Lore/tta LeMaster (she/they) as our newest Associate Professor in Queer Studies and Social Justice Education in August 2025. Dr. LeMaster comes to ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø from Arizona State University, where she has been a tenure-stream Associate Professor since 2018. Their research spans critical and liberatory pedagogies, queer and trans cultural performance, intersectional autoethnography, and arts-based inquiry. An award-winning scholar and creative practitioner, Dr. LeMaster is the author of Pedagogies of the Enfleshed and co-editor of Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography. We are excited to have their expertise and energy in our community.
Hayley Brooks, Contract Faculty
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Hayley H. Brooks as the Department of Social Justice Education’s newest contract faculty member. A graduate of our PhD program in Social Justice Education at ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø, Dr. Brooks specializes in critical international education, media and cultural studies, and gender-based violence prevention in public education. She was the 2022 recipient of the University of Toronto Award for Scholarly Achievement in the Area of Gender-Based Violence. Her research has been published in the Journal of Media Literacy Education and Comparative and International Education, and she has delivered workshops and presentations to educators, scholars, and community audiences both locally and internationally.
Lucy El-Sherif, Contract Faculty
The Department of Social Justice Education is pleased to welcome our newest contract faculty, including Dr. Lucy El-Sherif. Dr. El-Sherif earned her PhD in Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning in 2023 and comes to ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø from McMaster University, where she serves as an Assistant Professor in the Global Peace & Social Justice and Gender & Social Justice programs. Her research explores social citizenship for racialized migrant communities in Canada, focusing on how it is learned, embodied, and challenged across diasporic and transnational contexts. Through her work on Palestinian dabke and other embodied practices, she examines identity, belonging, and intergenerational migration experiences.
Elaine Cagulada, Research Officer - Disability Matters Project
The Department of Social Justice Education warmly welcomed Dr. Elaine Cagulada as the Research Officer for the Disability Matters Project in September 2024. Dr. Cagulada’s research spans critical disability studies, Black studies, digital humanities, and sociology, with a focus on narratives of race and disability. As part of Dr. Tanya Titchkosky’s Disability Matters team, funded by the Welcome Trust, Dr. Cagulada will support research on representations of disability, d/Deafness, and race in policing. She has also taught courses in disability studies in Social Justice Education.
Tatjana Grabeljsek, Department Manager
We’re excited to welcome Tatjana Grabeljsek to the Department of Social Justice Education as our new Department Manager. Tatjana brings a wealth of experience in academic administration, most recently from Toronto Metropolitan University, where she held leadership roles across several faculties over the past nine years. She also previously worked at the University of British Columbia in finance and administration.
Tatjana will be supporting the department in areas including strategic planning, financial management, research grants, recruitment, and staff operations. We’re thrilled to have her on board and look forward to the expertise and energy she brings to SJE!
